Porteus-v3.2rc5 bug reports

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Re: Porteus-v3.2rc5 bug reports

Post#121 by ncmprhnsbl » 07 Oct 2016, 07:21

Ed_P wrote:Neither of these options produces a working flashplayer plugin for Firefox.
firefox 50.0b4 and flashplayer-plugin-23.0.0.162-x86_64-1.xzm(both via update-<> scripts) are working for me..
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Re: Porteus-v3.2rc5 bug reports

Post#122 by jssouza » 07 Oct 2016, 10:29

When booting into Porteus from an iso file using from= cheatcode:

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guest@porteus:~$ cat /proc/cmdline 
quiet BOOT_IMAGE=/porteus/vmlinuz from=/porteus/Porteus-CINNAMON-v3.2rc5-x86_64.iso 
The environment variable $PORTDIR shows incorrect path:

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guest@porteus:~$ echo $PORTDIR
/mnt/isoloop/porteus
guest@porteus:~$ ls $PORTDIR
/bin/ls: cannot access '/mnt/isoloop/porteus': No such file or directory
The actual path is /mnt/live/mnt/isoloop. The file /var/log/porteus-livedbg also shows wrong paths to the loaded modules.

All credits go to Ed_P for noticing this here: http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... =15#p49327

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Re: Porteus-v3.2rc5 bug reports

Post#123 by Ed_P » 07 Oct 2016, 15:16

ncmprhnsbl wrote:firefox 50.0b4 and flashplayer-plugin-23.0.0.162-x86_64-1.xzm(both via update-<> scripts) are working for me..
Thanks ncmprhnsb. :) I'll give 50.0b4 a try. I'm currently using firefox-48.0b6-x86_64-1.xzm. I've tried various versions of the flashplayer.

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firefox-47.0b9-x86_64-1.xyzm
firefox-48.0b6-x86_64-1.xzm
flashplayer-plugin-11.2.202.635-x86_64-1alien.xyzm
flashplayer-plugin-22.0.0.209-x86_64-1.xyzm
flashplayer-plugin-23.0.0.162-x86_64-1.xyzm
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Re: Porteus-v3.2rc5 bug reports

Post#124 by Blaze » 07 Oct 2016, 19:38

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Re: Porteus-v3.2rc5 bug reports

Post#125 by brokenman » 07 Oct 2016, 22:43

We also need:

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NetworkManager-openvpn
NetworkManager-vpnc
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Re: Porteus-v3.2rc5 bug reports

Post#126 by brokenman » 07 Oct 2016, 23:04

When booting from an ISO there really is no porteus folder. It is locked up inside the ISO and so there has so far been no need to know where it is. You can't write to it nor read from it.

The ISO file from which porteus booted is shown in /var/log/porteus-livedbg as ISO=/path/to/porteus.iso (v3.2+)
Porteus did in fact boot from /mnt/isoloop. It copied the data into ram and then unmounted this point. Everything is relative to where initrd was when it booted which was /mnt/live.

There are some scripts that check for the string isoloop in porteus-livedbg to know if Porteus booted from an ISO so it can modify behaviour in terms of putting downloaded modules into a non-existent porteus folder.

EDIT:
What I am getting at here is that all scripts that need to know if Porteus booted from an ISO should do the check. If they require access to the loaded modules they should add the /mnt/live prefix to the modules.
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Re: Porteus-v3.2rc5 bug reports

Post#127 by Ed_P » 07 Oct 2016, 23:48

Ed_P wrote:
ncmprhnsbl wrote:firefox 50.0b4 and flashplayer-plugin-23.0.0.162-x86_64-1.xzm(both via update-<> scripts) are working for me..
Thanks ncmprhnsb. :) I'll give 50.0b4 a try. I'm currently using firefox-48.0b6-x86_64-1.xzm. I've tried various versions of the flashplayer.

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firefox-47.0b9-x86_64-1.xyzm
firefox-48.0b6-x86_64-1.xzm
flashplayer-plugin-11.2.202.635-x86_64-1alien.xyzm
flashplayer-plugin-22.0.0.209-x86_64-1.xyzm
flashplayer-plugin-23.0.0.162-x86_64-1.xyzm
-update-

Running 50.0b5 with the same flash problem. (The latest results from update-firefox.) The only addon shown is one for OpenH264 Video Codec

In the /tmp folder the Firefox xzm module has a lock icon and a red X icon on it. What does the X indicate.

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usr/lib64/firefox-50.0b5/distribution/searchplugins/locale/en-US/ddg.xml

Restoring permissions of /tmp/portff/ff.1696 to chmod 700

Slackware package /tmp/firefox-50.0b5-x86_64-1.txz created.

/tmp/portff
Verifying package firefox-50.0b5-x86_64-1.txz.
Installing package firefox-50.0b5-x86_64-1.txz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
Executing install script for firefox-50.0b5-x86_64-1.txz.
Package firefox-50.0b5-x86_64-1.txz installed.

Creating /tmp/firefox-50.0b5-x86_64-1.xzm


DONE

root@porteus:/home/guest# ls /tmp/
firefox-50.0b5-x86_64-1.txz  firefox-50.0b5-x86_64-1.xzm  pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n/
root@porteus:/home/guest# 

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guest@porteus:~$ ls /mnt/live/memory/images/f*
/mnt/live/memory/images/firefox-50.0b5-x86_64-1.xzm:
home/  usr/  var/

/mnt/live/memory/images/flashplayer-plugin-23.0.0.162-x86_64-1.xzm:
usr/  var/
guest@porteus:~$ 
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Re: Porteus-v3.2rc5 bug reports

Post#128 by ncmprhnsbl » 08 Oct 2016, 05:32

Ed_P wrote:Running 50.0b5 with the same flash problem. (The latest results from update-firefox.) The only addon shown is one for OpenH264 Video Codec
the only thing i can think to suggest is restart firefox.... i've had no problem with any combination of firefox and flash versions...
(note firefox will incorrectly display flash 23* as 11*)
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Re: Porteus-v3.2rc5 bug reports

Post#129 by Ed_P » 08 Oct 2016, 06:44

Rebooting doesn't even help.

It's too bad the USM apps can't be made to work with 3.2.

BTW If you use a save.dat file and a update-firefox module be sure to have a save.dat of at least 1GB. The default update-firefox Firefox allocates a .5 GB to a cache and saves up to 15 copies of the bookmarks files. My save.dats are usually .5 GB or less. Of course if you remember to change them you should be ok. I did mine as 983040 B and 2.
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Re: Porteus-v3.2rc5 bug reports

Post#130 by Blaze » 08 Oct 2016, 08:59

brokenman wrote:We also need:

NetworkManager-pptp
NetworkManager-openvpn
NetworkManager-vpnc
I don't have a new versions of these packages or building scripts for Slackware 14.2.

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Re: Porteus-v3.2rc5 bug reports

Post#131 by jssouza » 08 Oct 2016, 13:14

Hi brokenman,

Still on the isoloop. Instead of changing the path itself (/mnt/isoloop to /mnt/live/mnt/isoloop), couldn't the path be given via a symlink?

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ln -s /mnt/live/mnt/isoloop /mnt/isoloop
This way $PORTDIR would be reliable across all booted variants (/mnt/sdxn /mnt/srn and /mnt/isoloop).

I executed update-porteus after creating the symlink and it still correctly exited with the error saying cannot update when booted from ISO.
Maybe other scripts break with this... Pardon my ignorance if I am wrong about the addition of a symlink.

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Re: Porteus-v3.2rc5 bug reports

Post#132 by FURRY_NOVA » 08 Oct 2016, 15:37

You're a life saver, mate, thanks a lot. :beer: It'stable so far, I'll keep note here if any issues.

Edit: Forgot to mention. If anyone has trouble downloading them by link on page. Close the mediafire page, re-open link here and re-download again. Took me few times for it to work and sometimes says couldn't find download link in download manager.
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Re: Porteus-v3.2rc5 bug reports

Post#133 by Ed_P » 08 Oct 2016, 15:46

jssouza wrote:I executed update-porteus after creating the symlink and it still correctly exited with the error saying cannot update when booted from ISO.
:shock:
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Re: Porteus-v3.2rc5 bug reports

Post#134 by Ed_P » 08 Oct 2016, 18:29

ncmprhnsbl wrote:
Ed_P wrote:Running 50.0b5 with the same flash problem. (The latest results from update-firefox.) The only addon shown is one for OpenH264 Video Codec
the only thing i can think to suggest is restart firefox.... i've had no problem with any combination of firefox and flash versions...
(note firefox will incorrectly display flash 23* as 11*)
Surprise, surprise. :) I've booted into Always Fresh mode and Flash now shows as a plugin. So something in my changes= file is causing the problem. :wall:
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Re: Porteus-v3.2rc5 bug reports

Post#135 by brokenman » 08 Oct 2016, 20:27

Blaze,
https://download.gnome.org/sources/
Still on the isoloop. Instead of changing the path itself (/mnt/isoloop to /mnt/live/mnt/isoloop), couldn't the path be given via a symlink?
Good idea.
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